Category: Notes From Pastor Hedden
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August 12, 2016 Weekly Update
Dear Friends and Members of Emmanuel Church, It’s a beautiful, humid, midsummer morning up on God’s Hill! This Sunday, August 14, we will be wrestling with the images of the end of history in Luke 12. The Vanilla/Chocolate/Swirl ice cream fundraiser follows worship. Tuesday Morning is Bible Study at 10 a.m. The topic is the…
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In Memoriam: Lois (Beamer) Thompson & August Update
Dear friends and members of Emmanuel Church, It’s a beautiful day up on God’s hill!! In Memoriam: Today, Saturday, August 6th, is the memorial service for Lois Thompson of Elizabethtown, PA. The service is at 1 p.m. and interment is in Emmanuel Cemetery immediately following. Her obituary may be found here. Please join me in…
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June 30th Weekly Update– ‘Patriotic Praise of God’
Dear friends and members of Emmanuel Church, It’s a beautiful day up on God’s hill!! We’re just wrapping up Vacation Bible School! Tonight is the Olympic Award Closing Ceremony. You don’t want to miss it! Closing Ceremonies start at 6:45 p.m. This Sunday in our theme, “2016–The Year of the Bible,” we will be looking at the…
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April 7, 2016–Weekly Update
Dear Friends and Members of Emmanuel Church, It’s a beautiful afternoon up on the Hill! This Sunday will be deal with the story of the Burning Bush (Exodus 3:1-16)! The Sermon title is “Hearing the Name of God.” Sunday School for adults is 9:00 a.m. Worship is at 10:15. After worship we will be having…
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March 24, 2016–Maundy Thursday, Good Friday & Easter
Dear friends and members of Emmanuel Church, As we end Lent some of the most important days of the Christian year stand out. Tonight, Maundy Thursday begins with a Soup Supper at 6:30 p.m. Worship will follow around the tables in the Steele Building. It will be an interactive communion service. A Good Friday Prayer Service…
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March 18, 2016–Holy Week and Easter
Dear friends and members of Emmanuel Church, It is a beautiful morning up on the Hill! Tonight from 6-8 p.m is Messy Church for Big People and Little People. This is our newest series of Bible Study lessons (Noah’s ark this month), craft, songs, and snack. Learn to engage the Bible with your friends! Saturday…
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February 26–Weekly Update
Dear friends and members of Emmanuel Church, This week we sent out 3 prayer blankets for people who are having chemotherapy treatments from as close as Greensburg to as far away and Florida! Thank you for supporting this important ministry! It is awesome. Prayer is really working up here on the hill! Keep up the…
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February 3, 2016–“Launch into Lent!”
Dear friends and members of Emmanuel Church, Launch into Lent this week! Friday night is a special event–our Westmoreland Association Northern Cluster Churches will gather together for a U2charist, which is a worship service using the music of the rock band U2. Since Hill’s is hosting, we are asking our members to bring food for the…
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January 31, 2016 Sermon–Year of the Bible–“A God who Promises”
Genesis 9:8-17 8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 9‘As for me, I am establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you, 10and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the domestic animals, and every animal of the earth with you, as many as came out of…
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January 20, 2016–Hilltopper February Edition
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